Hg Wells The Time Machine Summary

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The Time Machine by H. G. Wells was an intriguing and exciting book about a Time Traveller and his journey’s through time. In this book, the Traveller explained to a group of men who were discussing the nature of time that time was the fourth dimension; just like the three dimensions of space: length, width and height. The Traveller argued that since time was a dimension, then it stood to reason that people should be able to move along the time continuum, into the past or the future. Most of the men do not seem to believe the Traveller or his theory, but agreed that they would like to travel in time, and talked about what they would do if they could. To illustrate his point, the Time Traveller went and got a model of his time machine from his laboratory to demonstrate and later returned to detail the places, things and people he had seen in his travels with his working Time Machine. Throughout the story, the Time Traveller faced setbacks and challenges, but the book outlined how he persevered and pointed to the future mankind faced. …show more content…

I enjoyed reading about the Traveller’s adventures, his meeting and relations with creatures from the future like the Morlock’s (underground dwellers) and the Eloi (similar to small, unintelligent children). The owner/caretaker relationship between the Morlock’s and the Eloi, although symbiotic in ways, hinted at the decline of the human race based upon events occurring in the Traveller’s current time. That made me wonder, or perhaps I missed it, if the author could have done more to explore how the doom and gloom ending could have been changed. The premise ultimately was that today doesn’t really matter, because humanity was doomed anyway. Another issue, that was a bit depressing, was that since no one really believed the Traveller’s stories of the future, they couldn’t learn from what was said by the

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